Irwin v. Scribner

This action is brought against five defendants, to recover five thousand dollars damages for a trespass upon the person of the plaintiff, and injury to a slave.

*584Sometime after the case was at issue, the following agreement was entered into between the plaintiff and two of the defendants, by their attorneys, viz :

“ Irwin v. Scribner et al. — No. 5951. In this case it is agreed that John Webb and Theodore II. Scribner are to pay each eighty dollars, their share of the costs accrued up to this date, and they are to pay this sum, whether there be judgment for or against defendant. And the…